Back to work
This time next week, I'll be finished with my thesis, and binding it. And trying to restrain myself from decorating the cover with tiny illuminations and gold-leaf decorations...
Easter didn't feel like Easter to me. I really miss my home church over the holidays. And Easter in particular doesn't really resonate with me unless I've been participating in Holy Week all along. At Emmanuel, I started with Maundy Thursday (one of my all-time favorite services), and even did a few hours in the middle of the night during the Good Friday all-night vigil. Stations of the Cross in the empty, barren church on Holy Saturday morning, and then Easter Even Saturday night--when Easter really begins, with a flash of fire in the back of the church.
And, yesterday's Easter service came in the evening, so without Holy Week, and the Saturday events, and an Easter morning service...it felt like I was just watching the holiday from afar. I suppose it's only my own fault, for not having found an Episcopal church that could be my church home. Next year.
But, I'm back to work, in all ways. We dyed eggs in Sunday school, after washing the feet of all the stuffed animals (I wanted to tell the whole story in one evening, so we started with the foot-washing). I'm at the VUE offices now, working on events in NYC, Sonoma County, and Spain. Tonight, back to thesis work. I haven't really written on it for a week, as I had another paper due last Monday. I've been reading one final book, and am gathering my thoughts before I recommence typing tonight.
M. and I have been looking around at registry possibilities (we have some _amazing_ ideas!) and setting up a wedding website--part blog, perhaps, part information posting place. And I'm about to schedule engagement photos with an amazing photographer classmate of mine (hey, K!). I haven't really had time to think about it, much, because we've been so busy, but sometimes it just hits me: "I'm engaged. To marry M.." What an incredible feeling.
Okay, seriously: back to work...
Easter didn't feel like Easter to me. I really miss my home church over the holidays. And Easter in particular doesn't really resonate with me unless I've been participating in Holy Week all along. At Emmanuel, I started with Maundy Thursday (one of my all-time favorite services), and even did a few hours in the middle of the night during the Good Friday all-night vigil. Stations of the Cross in the empty, barren church on Holy Saturday morning, and then Easter Even Saturday night--when Easter really begins, with a flash of fire in the back of the church.
And, yesterday's Easter service came in the evening, so without Holy Week, and the Saturday events, and an Easter morning service...it felt like I was just watching the holiday from afar. I suppose it's only my own fault, for not having found an Episcopal church that could be my church home. Next year.
But, I'm back to work, in all ways. We dyed eggs in Sunday school, after washing the feet of all the stuffed animals (I wanted to tell the whole story in one evening, so we started with the foot-washing). I'm at the VUE offices now, working on events in NYC, Sonoma County, and Spain. Tonight, back to thesis work. I haven't really written on it for a week, as I had another paper due last Monday. I've been reading one final book, and am gathering my thoughts before I recommence typing tonight.
M. and I have been looking around at registry possibilities (we have some _amazing_ ideas!) and setting up a wedding website--part blog, perhaps, part information posting place. And I'm about to schedule engagement photos with an amazing photographer classmate of mine (hey, K!). I haven't really had time to think about it, much, because we've been so busy, but sometimes it just hits me: "I'm engaged. To marry M.." What an incredible feeling.
Okay, seriously: back to work...